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Marlon Brando Cecil Beaton
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Marlon Brando Cecil Beaton

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Marlon Brando Cecil Beaton
Marlon Brando, 1947
a portrait photograph of Marlon Brando by Cecil Beaton, the black and white print taken from a 10x8in. negative, with photographer's ink-stamp credit to verso and initials CB in pencil, also with VOGUE STUDIOS, New York City PROOF ink-stamp, additionally inscribed in an unknown hand in pencil Marlon Brandon [sic] -- 10x8in. (25.4x20.3cm.)
Literature
DANZIGER, James Beaton, London: Secker & Warburg, 1980, p.154 (illus.)
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Lot Essay

At the time this photograph was taken, a 21 year old Marlon Brando was emerging as a new young talent in New York theatre. It would be another five years before his ground-breaking role as Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award.

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